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July 22, 2012

I had a feeling when I started the blog up again it might be a bit like starting up an old car. There was every possibility that it would be a bit shaky in the beginning. And clearly a month and half without a post shows that to be playing out a bit.

The Thing continues it’s disruptive and daily presence in our lives but I can’t honestly blame it much, other than to say it makes me weary, and weary is not good for blogging.

More likely the cause is changes at work. Good changes, don’t get me wrong, but changes that have required lots of time and brain power and creativity. Leaving not a lot of that for blogging.

Then there is Summer. I’m never really great in the summer because we just loose all manner of routine on the home front. With the kids home from school, it a fly by the seat of you pants operation sometimes. Combine that with record rainfall followed by blistering heat waves… well you know the story.

So I’m combating this tonight by composing a list of things to post about. I’m in the mood and I’m sure somewhere there is a Blogging 101 lecture that says plan a list of posts is a must.

What else do you do to be more disciplined about posting? How do you not let it get away from you?

May 31, 2012

It's been nearly a year since I've posted here. A year that has easily been the worst of my life, but that is not why I stopped. Actually I stopped because well, to be honest I just wasn't that into it anymore. This time last, year life was actually going along pretty good and I was busy and happy and it just seemed like blogging was not part of that.

I guess on some level I've always seen blogging as a means of reaching out to to fill in a something that is/was missing in real life. And life didn't seem to be missing anything, so I stopped.

And then the thing happened. The thing that changed everything. The thing I still will not be talking about. But a thing happened. And there wasn't even a place or time or thought or ability to breathe, to do anything, but survive from one day to the next.

To be clear, things are not better now. It is not done. We are not out the other side of it all. But thing have, for a time anyway, leveled out. And that has given me the mental capacity to want to write things down again. To keep track of things. To record. There is a need to document, to catalog, life's moments that I can't explain.

So I'm back. Finding my way a bit still, but back. And that is enough for now.